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From: hardin@mavplus3.rtp.dg.com (Paul Hardin)
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Subject: Re: Problems with 1Gb drives and VMS 4.7?
Keywords: giga vms fujitsu wren 4.7 scsi
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.171629.29960@dg-rtp.dg.com>
Date: 18 Mar 91 17:16:29 GMT
References: <1991Mar15.131300.18910@etek.chalmers.se>
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In article <1991Mar15.131300.18910@etek.chalmers.se>, co@etek.chalmers.se (Christer Olsson) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> I've heard some rumours that VMS 4.7 and some Qbus SCSI-controllers
|> has problems with large SCSI-drives (1 Gb or larger). 
|> 
|> Can anyone confirm, deny or explain?
|> 


	The problem is that data can potentially be lost, with drives
	of formatted capacity greater than 1.073742 GBytes!  

	There's a front-page article on this in the March 4, 1991 edition
	of "Digital News".  According to the article, it affects all Ultrix 
	releases, and VMS releases up to 5.4.

	Paul


-- 
	Speaking purely for myself...

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